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India should adopt risk-based approach not blanket bans to contain Covid: WHO India head

New Delhi, 18 Jan 2022 [Fik/News Sources]: Blanket approaches such as complete restriction on the movement of people and travel bans can be counterproductive in containing Covid in a country like India, says WHO's India representative Roderico H Ofrin while advocating target, risk-based strategies to counter the pandemic. Stressing on the need to protect both lives and livelihoods, he said public health action in India and across the world must be continually guided by evidence from four key questions -- how transmissible is the variant, severity of the disease it causes, how well vaccines and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection protect and how common people perceive risk and follow control measures. "WHO does not recommend a blanket travel ban, nor complete restriction of people's movement. In many ways, such blanket

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We don’t sell, rent data: US-based analytics firm on NaMo app controversy

New Delhi, 27 Mar 2018 [Fik/News Sources]: A US-based analytics company facing allegations that it received personal data from the official mobile app of Prime Minister Narendra Modi without the consent of app users, has said that it does not sell, rent or re-market data. "CleverTap employees don't have access to any of the data stored with it by a publisher," Anand Jain, co-founder of California-based firm, told news agency PTI in a short e-mail statement when asked if his company has access to users' personal information from the NaMo App. The five-year-old US-based start-up founded by three Indians is facing the heat after a pseudonymous researcher alleged that Modi's app was pumping private information like name, e-mail, mobile number, device information and location, to servers controlled by the firm without

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Nazia Khan, 18-Y-Old winner of national bravery award appointed as ‘Special Police Officer’ in Agra

Agra, 31 Mar 2018 [Fik/News Sources]: Nazia Khan, the 18 years old girl from Agra  who has received several national and state awards for her bravery and social work, has been designated as a ‘Special Police Officer’ of Agra Police by the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Director General of Police, OP Singh. Earlier this year Khan was awarded a national bravery award, as she decided to take active measures to thwart a network of drugs and gambling rackets, that had reached its decadence in Agra. She filed numerous police complaints against the crime ring, although they went unheard and she also started receiving threats. Unfazed by the threats, Khan tweeted to then Chief Minister of UP, Akhilesh Yadav, about the rackets, following which rigorous police interventions saw drugs and gambling network eradicated from various

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